When the speakers of Thucydides' party complained that Pericles had wasted the public money and destroyed the revenue, he asked the people in the

The building of the temples, by which Athens was adorned, the people delighted and the rest of the world astonished and which now alone prove that the

Thucydides represents the constitution under Pericles as a democracy in name but really an aristocracy, because the government was all in the hands of